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Articte XVI. 
On Fatting with Potatoes, and on the Advan- 
tages of Drilling. 
[By the Rev. H. J. Cros. | 
SIR, 
ERMIT me firft to apologize for my apparent 
inattention to your queries of the 16th of 
June, and to affure you, my not receiving your let- 
ter (owing to an improper direction) was the fole 
caufe of the delay. 
Your correfpondent from Ireland wifhes me to 
be as full and explicit as poflible, on the fubject 
of feeding cattle with potatoes; it is not in my 
power materially to elucidate the fubject. I con- 
tinue to practife the fame mode of culture as my 
former letter defcribed, and to ufe them in large 
quantities, having tied up and fatted 35 bullocks 
in one year, with thofe ufeful roots. Your corre- 
fpondent afks how long a beaft will be fattening on 
them; to this no pofitive anfwer can be given, fo 
much depends on the condition of the beaft when 
he is put up. Butthe refult of all my experiments 
tends to prove, that bullocks will fat fooner on po- 
tatoes, than on either cabbages or turnips:—190 
fheep, out of 200, I fed upon them in one year, 
fatted beyond my expectation; ten never, I believe, 
were 
